A$AP Rocky has always made a grand entrance, especially in fashion, but the rapper couldn't have anticipated that one of his most viral Met Gala moments would involve a leap through the air and a fan's shoulder.
Let's go back to the 2023 Met Gala, and the streets outside The Carlyle Hotel were awash in celebrity gawkers, cameras firing like lightning. Amid the throng was an unsuspecting fan, taking in the excitement until she became part of the evening's most surprising red carpet moment in the blink of her eye.
A$AP Rocky, late for the most enchanting night in fashion, did what any fashion icon worth his ounces would: he climbed a barricade. Except this wasn't your average bounce. Rocky used a fan's shoulder as a launchpad in a moment now immortalized on the internet, knocking her glasses uneven and kindling a thousand memes.
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The moment went viral in the time it takes to say "fashionably late." But now, close to a year later, the story has a new twist.
In A$AP Rocky's Life in Looks video for Vogue, he revisited the moment with rueful honesty and an apology.
"I was going to be late for the Met Gala," he said, smiling sheepishly. "I was trying to get in my room, and this poor young little lady, man, I didn't even know that I had messed up her glasses."
A celebrity isn't often so open about a moment like that, but Rocky was. "Again, I apologize. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to do that, baby." the 36-year-old said, clearly owning his fashion-forward misstep.
The woman who fell victim to the shoulder stunt shared a selfie on X (formerly Twitter) after the fact, captioning it nonchalantly, "A$AP Rocky just literally jumped over me." Her post went viral, and Rocky hopped on the conversation with a cheeky: "LOL MY FAULT $WEETHEART."
What could've been an uncomfortable moment became viral gold. The woman embraced the joke, tweeting later, "I'm printing this on a T-shirt. "She also reacted to the news that Rocky had followed her by saying, "Why is A$AP now one of my friends?"
Talk about a fairy tale of the 21st century: a girl meets a celebrity, gets vaulted, becomes an internet name, and walks away with an A-list follower and an inside joke for life.
In a landscape defined by the ephemeral nature of viral moments, A$AP Rocky took a PR pratfall. He turned it into a lesson in humility and humor, perhaps the beginning of a stylish bromance.
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